Elena Popkova

My name is Elena Popkova, a 51-year-old Russian scholar, a Doctor of Science in Economics, and an artist, living in Volgograd and working all over the world. To be more precise, I’m a photo artist, because I use the camera as a tool for recording and transmitting the artistic vision of a person of science.

My research activities as a scholar currently focus on the development of a unique method to determine the gravity of an economic crisis—the so-called ‘underdevelopment whirlpool’. At the moment, I am deeply engaged in studying the category of time, where my thoughts are closely aligned with the theory of the astrophysicist, Nikolai Kozyrev, who believed that time is a direction and that there is a defining correspondence between cause and effect. Hence, time has a physical property.

I first elaborated on this research topic through my art with a 2019 exhibition and book: “Antifragility: The Life of a Rose”, in Germany. My interest was in exploring the space where the irreversibility and continuity of existence were depicted in photographs that portray the life cycle of a rose—wonderfully unique and incredibly vital. The antifragility of a flower is an essential prerequisite for development—as the capacity to overcome resista...

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